Elon Musk SINKS With Desperate Tesla Stunt As Alarming Robotaxi Videos Surface
June 28, 2025
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7:48Now PlayingElon Musk SINKS With Desperate Tesla Stunt As Alarming Robotaxi Videos Surface
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as posted by the channelElon Musk rocked as attempt to boost Tesla stock after sinking the brand with his own antics goes sideways with alarming videos and reddit threads exposing the reality of people's experiences at the long-awaited “robotaxi” launch and the scary mistakes the supposed "full self-driving" vehicles were making on the public streets of Austin, Texas. John Iadarola and Brett Erlich break it down on The Damage Report. Leave a comment with your thoughts below!
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We checked out Tesla’s supervised, inviteonly robotaxi launch. Here’s what we saw
"Tesla’s June launch of its long-awaited “robotaxi” requires a lot of qualifiers: it was supervised, open only to a few invitees and included somewhere between 10-20 vehicles.
The stock jumped 8% the day after the launch, and some participants and observers called it a success. The shares have largely given back that gain since then.
“I thought it was extremely smooth. Everything we saw,” said Wedbush analyst Dan Ives. “Not just from a safety perspective. Maneuverability was way impressive. I thought actually even better than Waymo out of the gates. I thought going into it was going to be an eight out of 10. I think it’s a 10 out of 10 relative to our experience.”
Other experiences were less smooth: One vehicle drove on the wrong side of the road, one vehicle stopped in the middle of traffic, one braked suddenly on a 40 mph street and another vehicle dropped off a passenger in the middle of an intersection."
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